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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-03-10
PERSONAL NOTES.

Minister Phelps and wife have gone to
the South of France.
Theodore Tilton is one Of the most
conspicuous bibliomaniacs in Paris.
Congressman elect W. 81. T. Lee, of
Virginia, stands six feet four inches in
his stockings. and weighs $50 pounds.
The Boston Ideal Opera company has
a new tenor. Frank Baxter, who made his
debut at Buffalo, n. Y, Saturday night,
and was favorably received.
Deputy Internal Revenue Collector
Dockrey found l.. Butter, of Oconto, sell
ing oleomargarine for butter and made
him take out a license for $24 and pay a
fine of SIP.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-03-10

daring act of some novel kind are often
able to get 5000 or $500 week. Clowns
are exceedingly plentiful, and may be en-
gagged for as low as $40 week. Still,
testers like Billy Burke, Johnny Purvis
Charley Madden and Billy Conrad get $75
a week
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-03-10
"Spring Time o. Year Coming"
SPRING 1I1ne q 1eaf IOnaDg.
HGTBEDs AND HOW TO PREPARE THEM-GAR-
DEN SEED AND SOWING - WHY FARMERS
FAIL AS GARDENERS.
American CuitivatOr.

FAIL AS GARDENERS.
American CuitivstOr.
The time is now at hand for putting in
heat hotbeds for early vegetables, such as
lettuce, cabbage, and a little later for to-
matoes. The best heat for good hotbed
is fresh horsedupg. from stable where
at least fifteen horses are kept, so that a
load of it can be obtained while fresh. If
this can be conveniently mixed with an
equal bulk of forest leaves we'll moisten-
ed, or with waste hops from some brew
cry, it will make more certain AID en-
during heat.
If the beds were put in order as direct
ed in these columns last November, there
will be little trouble now in digging out
the loan 80 the depth of two feet from
the top of the frame. In the pit thus
formed put in heat to the depth of
ten or twelve inches, treading it down
firmly as forked in, and then spread over
1t six to ten inches of the loan thrown
out. Try the bed with thermometer
after placing on the glass, and after day
or two, if the temperature of the loan an
inch before the surface is at so to so de-
grees, it will be right to SOW seed. If hot
ter than this it will hardly be safe to SOW
seed, unless the bed is aired very fire.
quently are destroyed by too much heat.
If too hot the heat will subside in few
days by airing.
Ea-ly lettuce and cabbage seed should
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-03-10
THE HOUSEHOLD.
COFFEE CAKES.

Work into quart of dough rounded
tablespoonful of butter, half cup of
sugar and one cup of dried currants;
work In -four sufficient for dough, make
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-03-10

in small rolf, dip in melted butter, place
In pans and let it rise half All hour.
Bake.
SPANISH BUNS.
One pint of -four, one pint of sugar.
one cup of sweet milk, one cup of butter.
four eggs, beaten separately, one teacue
OF yeast, one teaspoon each of cinnamon,
cloves and allspice, one grated nutmeg.
knead well, roll out, cut out in large bis
cults, let rise and bake; when taken from
the oven sprinkle with white sugar.
BUTTERMILK MUFFINs.
These have but to be tried to become a
standing breakfast dish. Beat hard two
eggs into a quart of butternnilk; stir in
flour to make thick batter, about a
quart, and lastly, tablespoonful of salt
and the same of soda. Bake in hot
oven in well-greased tins. Mullins of all
kinds should only be cut just around
the edge, then pulled open with the
fingers.
GERMAN COFFEE CAKE.
Heat together tive cupfuls of sugar
and one of butter; beat separately the
whites and yolks of six eggs; mix we'll
together with two large cupfuls of
dough, first the sugur and butter, the
yoiks, then the whites of the eggs; and
one teaspoonful each of the extract of
cinnamon, allspice and nutmeg, half a
pound of seeded raisins and little more
flour; let rise, make in small cakes, keep
warm twenty minutes and bake.
BEEF WITH CELERY AND WHITE BEANS.
Soak about one and half pints of whits
beans in cold water for about twelve
hours; drain off the water, and put them
In stewpan with a lean piece of brisket,
three heads of celery cut in small pieces,
pepper, salt, aud sufficient water
to cover the meat stew slowly
until the meat is quite tender and
the beans soft, then add four or five
large lnmps of sugar and half teacupful
of vinegar; let it all stew for few min
utes.
STEWED RAIsINs.
Take one pound of best reisins, pick
them free from stalks, cover in dish
with cold water, steep all night, put them
IN stew pan and bring the water TO the
boiling point, then simmer until the skins
are quite tender; tnrn into dish 20 cool,
and they are ready for use. This. with
bread, Is an excellent dish for persons of
weak digestion or for invalids. If half
pound of figs, each cut into four parts,
be stewed with the raisens, the liquor will
be rich, sirupy and delicious.
CAULIFLowER PUREE,
To serve with boiled fowl. is an i'm
provement on celery sauce, and variet y
besides. Boil carefully washed cauli-
flower in three pints of water one ounce of
butter, two teaspoonfulls OF salt; when
done, chop it, having ready to add, slow
~ stewed, sliced onion, little celery,
half a turnip, one ounce of ham, two of
butter, little bay leaf and shredded
mace; add the caulifiower, stir well, add
tablespoonful of flour, pint of milk
boil; pass it through sieve, warm again
nd serve with the fowl.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-03-10

LEGAL BLANKS
WOOD CO. REPORTER OFFICE.
FOR JUSTICE OF THE PEACE.
Appeal-Notice, Affidavit and Undertaking.
Observation-Disclosures and Affidavit.
Bill Of costs.
Garinshee Aihsavits.
Summons.
Replevin-Warcant and Affidavit
Subpoenas.
Summons-with filing and Return.
Venire.
And full line Of blanks used by any Justice
Of the Peace.
MISCELLANEOUS.
Land Contracts. (Bond for deed,)
Lease-No. , for Farm land.
" term of years for city
property.
Mechanics Leiu-Petition for material ami
labor.
Mortgages-For real estate-Prepared speci
ally for Wood County Records.
Warranty Deeds-Prepared for " God County
Records.
Chattel Morris age-Nol.
=" 5. Several Notes.
Satisfaction of Mortgage.
Assignment "
Notice to Tenant to quit Premises.
Generalffiadave for Pnsion,
Physicians affGavits for Pension.
Saloon License bonds.
General Power of Attorney.
Quit-Claim Deed-No. l. form 1856.
Search Warrant, and Affidavit.
STATIONERY
No. 1. Legal Cap-Linen.
Abstract or Department LegaI--Numbered
lines.
Letter Heads printed to order.
Bill a. "a
Envelopes
Business Cards
Tags-all sizes - -
Circulars "
Show Bills, all kinds" -
Tablets of white paper for pencils.
. pen, all sizes kept
in stock.
We propose tie keep all blanks used in Circuit
Court, Justices Court and those of miscella
ueous character as noted above.
JOB DEPARTMENT
We have in this department complete line
of job Material and Type for doing frst-class
job work short notice and at the lowest
living prices. We do all kinds of Pamphlet
and Law Brief work known to the trade.
Call in and get prices.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-03-10
S171, 933, 977
AS, 40, 242

Owns and operates nearly $500 miles of thor
cughly equipped road in Illinois, Wisconsin, Iowa,
Missouri, Minnesota and Dakota
It is the Best Direct Route be-
tween all principal points in the
Northwest, Southwest and Far
West
For maps, time tables, rates eff passage and
IT lght, etc apply TO the nearest station agent Of
the CHICAGO, MILWAUKEE, & ST. PAUL RAILWAY.
or TO any Railroad Agent anywhere in the
World.
II MILLER, A. " II. CARPENTER
Oeheral manager. Gen. Pass. and Tkt. Agt
=. F. TUCKER, GEO. Fl. HEAFFOPD
Asst Gen. Man Asst Gen Pass and Tkt. Agt.
MILWAUKEE, WISCONSIN.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-03-10

eS-For notices in reference to Special Excpr
sions, changes of time, and other items of inter-
esS Ia connection with the CHICAGO, MILWAUKEE,
u ST. PAUL RAILWAY, please refer to the local
columns of this paper
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-03-10
Public Debt Statement.

Public Debt Statement.
WASHINGTON, March 1 The following
is the recapitulation of the public debt
statement issued to-day:
Interest bearing debt, total, 81, 129, 94s 74s
Debt on which interest has ceas-
ed Observation-Disclosures. :. 6, 49,. 210
Debt bearing no interest =. $50, $685. 023
Total debt Observation-Disclosures. s171, 933, or
Decrease during month. 49,. 1,436, 78
Decrease of debt since June
80, 1886, ............... SIS, 1o4, 357
Total cash ia Treasury shown
by the treSSurer-General ac-
count .............. 445, 40, 242
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-03-10

IN small rolf, dip in melted butter, place
In pans and let it rise half All hour.
Bake.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1887-10-26
Governmental Superyis!on.

Col. II. NJ. Greene, of the Kansas Asylum
for the Feeble Minded, writing upon the
subject Of strong government, says: "One
Of the most important subjects Of gov
ernnlental supervision is the scrutiny Of all
incongruous and inharmonious elements, and
the adoption of measures for their conversion
into harmonious action. And the jnsigniIi-
canoe Of the obstacle cannot be logically
pleaded A grain Of dust may blind king.
4 beggar has slain a ruler, and changed the
whole course of statecraft. a single woman,
mentally deformed, has cost the great city
many lives and thousands Of treasure. The
Grant boy, who knows no guide or governor
save his own lawless VIII, may lead the mob
to the sack of the burning city. The states
man must recognize these perils and provide
against them. - y It may be held that
the principle which governs in the family is
affection for each member, and this sentiment
should still be permitted TO provide suitable
care for is defective members. But it can
be shown that public welfare often demands
means which are strongly opposed by family
affection Vaccination Is deemed q necessary
oneration in order to protect the community,
but it is often violently rejected by the FAM
ilv. Ignorance, or false kindness of the fam
lily, often negatives tne acLS lnos9 ueeued TO
promote its welfare, and, in degree, that Of
the community. OF all the agencies for pro-
noting health and maintaining it the ordi-
nary family is the least reliable and successful.
That the ignorant, the superstitious, tho alb
iectly poor, even the openly vicious, should
be intrusted with the care and Improvement
Of the desperately deplorable case requiring
aid, is proposition, abhorrent as it seems,
which is often urged by pretended statesmen.
Scarcely better is the attitude Of those states
which permit their idiotic and insane to die
in county jails wanting not means but dis
position to build asylunls for their care"
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1887-10-26
AROUND BLANCO BAY.

4 List of the Useful Plants Which Grow
III That Region.
Between many plants we found in the vi
cinity Of Blanco bay / will mention few
which, on account of usefulness, are already,
and viii be still more, of very great i'm
portance. Between these plants the first
place belongs to the wild date or datilillo tree
yucca Scotti) tall tree, occasionally forty
and fifty feet high.
Datilillo looks sometimes ike IA palmetto,
but has narrow long and very sharp leaves.
The stem is very fibrous, and excellent from
which to prepare paper, cordage, mating,
etc. The London Telegraph is printed on the
paper manufactured out Of the fiber of lower
California wild date. 1t grows in abundance
south Of San Quentin and Rosario valleys.
Candlewood tree (fuguiera gigantea), by
the Mexicans called cirio, is 4 very remark
able plant 1t presents a very singular ap-
pearance in desert, sometimes growing
straight like an arrow, sometimes inclined in
all possible positions, OF bent in most fantas-
tic forms The leaves are very small, the
bark white and it is covered with long twigs
The stem contains pith, which is eaten by cat
tie In the hollow trunks of this remarkable
plant swarms of wild bees find their abode
Here / must remark that the bees were I'M
known before on the peninsula. They came
from upper California, and now they are
everywhere, honey being used by the Next
cans instead Of sugar for tea or coffee. The
candlewood tree is also very fbrous and can
be used in the same manner as datilillo.
The third remarkable plant is maguey or
agave shawl. 1t belongs to the family of
the century plants, and it grows everywhere
fror' San Diego TO San Lucas. 1t forms a
beautiful object IN the desert, with its dark
green leaves and splendid yellow flowers 1t
has also fibrous qualities; besides, out of this
plant is prepared the celebrated Mexican
beverage--nesCal.
Though the country III the vicinity of
Blanco bay Is very rich in fora, yet there is
perfect absence of animal life, and per-
feet silence reigns there supreme. The only
living creature that seems to thrive there is
the trap door spider, occasionally though
wrongfuIly called tarantula. This trap door
spider, cteniza California, is only half as
large as the tarantula, but belongs to the same
family of mygalid5e. It inhabits the under
ground holes or tubes, provided with very
constructed trap doors. The
nests found near Blanco bay were about
half dozen in number, and dug on level
ground but as / could see all OF these tubes
were abandoned.-Cor. San Francisco Chron-
iola
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1887-10-26
The Organ Grinders Monkeys.

1 have always had Il curiosity to discover
where the organ grinders monkeys get their
outfits The other day my craving was graft.
fed. In a Broom street basement l dis.
covered g pretty girl trimming monkeys
coat. The hats and caps which complete the
costume Of the melodious ape were only pres
ent to the extent OF boxful. There is not q
very heavy demand for these costumes, says
the pretty girl, and their manufacture only
part of that Of cheap dolls clothing and queer
rag rabbits, cloth cats and other articles al
vertu such as are sold by street vendors You
can dress q monkey decently for half dollar
and provide him with q uniform cut 70 order
warranted to tit and splendid enough for Ell
opera boufTe field marshal, for a dollar and G
half, cash down. The credit system, without
which dudeiom would be in bad way. does
not prevail al this ciass OF monkeys tailors.-
Alfred Trumble in New Y ork News.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1887-10-26
The NIessroom Mt Sing Sinc.

A glance into the messroom reveals 1,165
convicts bending over thGir plates, eating
their bread and meat, or tapping up their
soup. Along the aisles are ranged the keep
ers, dressed in blue. Not sound is heard in
oil that mass of men save the occasional
scraping OF the bottom OF a soup dish with q
pewter spoon. Now and then hand is
raised What is that for?' is asked.
THAT means one whole piece OF bread" is
the reply. Then both hands appear above a
convict's head, with the two forefingers
crossed "And what does that mean?'
That means half q slice, for none is al
lowed TO be wasted, and every man must eat
up oil he receives"
The silence is almost deathlike while for
twenty minutes the " al advances. Then
the men rise, the companies are formed in
line, the lockstep begins, and Swish, swish,
swish, out they so across the Towering yard
back u their stations il the workshops-New
Work Tribune.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1887-10-26
What SnnrtinC Hen Care Tor.

Fully one-fourth of the people who visit the
races nowadays do so merely to avail them
selves OF the betting privileges afforded on
the course, and not because they care q CONT
mental for thu sport Of racing es q recreation
Hundreds of men never 60 fifty feet from the
betting paddock during the o;ternoon. They
care only for the result and are utterly iniif-
ferent to the nicetes Of the struggle II they
win they are eager to get their money rs soon
as possible in order that they may play it
again IL the next race, They are the men
who ara the most eager for the latest stable
tips and information. Though they consider
themselves sporting men par excellence, they
have little claim to the title, but are gam
blers, pure and simple.-New York Sun.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1887-10-26
Rhode Islands Peculiarities.

She is the only state that has no provision
in her constitution for callinga constitutional
convention.
She is the only state that requires more
than majority Of votes to ratify amend
ments TO the constitution.
She is the only state whose constitution
draws q distinction between native and
naturalized citizens
She is the only state whose legislatures vote
by secret ballot
She is the only state that requires the gov
ernor TO share the pardoning power with The
senate.
She is the only state that requires voters to
register one year in order to vote tho next.
She is the only state that requires majority
vote TO elect all officers.
She is the only state that requires prop
erty qualification of voters.-BoSton Globe.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1887-10-26
smartenins the Coronation Chair.

We shall not know how much harm haA
been done to Westminster abbey in prepar-
ing it for The royal thanksgiving service
until tho scaTolds have been removed. More
care, it IS believed, has been taken than on
previous occasions, but one wanton piece Of
mischief has certainly been committed. We
shall scarcely be believed when we say that
the coronation chair, perhaps to most English
men the most precious Of all the precious relics
in the abbey, was handed over to some bar
5arian to DO smartened up, and he has daubed
it the orthodox Wardour street brown and
vanished it! Yet this is true The chair
made 600 years ago to contain the
stone which even then had long story
behind it, has suffered much from hard
usuage and from the hands Of the mis-
chievouS. But not even in the perious time
when GeorgeIV was crowned was it attempt
ed to take away the chairs age and make q
new thing Of it. Now, when we pride ourselves
on knowing more about Old art work than
our fathers did, this has been done, and the
throne Of six and twenty monarchs has been
vulgarized into the semblance OF the hall
chair OF a Cockney Gothic villa.-The Attic
N
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1887-10-26
HOW TO SOBER OFF.
A Remedy which Appears To Be Quit
AS Bad rs the Disease.

a Remedy which Appears To Be Quite
as Bad rs the Disease.
| Amember of the Young Bachelors club
| turned in his resignation the other night on
the ground that he was about to be married
| on the next day. According to the constitu-
| ton the young fellow was obliged to treat the
bows to all the dehcacies OF the season. As
| the night advanced two Of the members,
pioued at their friends club dereliction,
| thought 1t would be good joke to make it
| impossible for the young man to be present at
the wedding the next morning. They made
| him so drunk that he couldn't stand. In this
| predicament he was found by the friend who
WAS to act as his best man. The friend, for
tunately, was a well seasoned drinker and
took in the situation at glance. The pros
| pective husband was aware Of the plight he
was in, and with tears in his eyes begged his
friend to have him braced up in time for the
ceremony.
There wasn't a moment to lose. The friend
dragged the groom elect into the back room
of a saloon and dropped him into chair.
He then went to the bar and mixed four
spoonfuls of cayenne pepper into bottle
of ginger ale, and by main strength
forced it down the young fellows throat
He had felt all ON fire before, but when
this fearful potion was administered he I'M
agined that n volcano was raging within
him He uttered an awful yell and made a
dash for pitcher Of ice water near By, but
he was held firmly in the chair while his
friend wound a wet towel round his head.
The water was running in streams from the
young fellows eyes, and the towel soon be-
Gan TO steam. For ten minutes this agony
was prolonged, after which his friend laid
him on his back upon the table and pounded
his stomach with an umbrella. The young
bridegroom was now limp and apparently
Iifeless. He was carried back to the chair
and a glass of ice water forced down his
throat. The sudden change was painful
The poor fellows teeth chartered and he
shook in every limb He was then carried TO
a settee and wrapped in two billiard table
covers. When his heavy breathing showed
that he slept his friend went out and sat in
the barroom. In an hour he aroused his
friend and gave him a cocktail
The effect Of this heroic treatment was
startling. The young fellow was not only
perfectly sober, but as bright as q lark. Il
was pretty full last night, wasn't 1?' he in
quired, as if trying to recall his past eZ-
periences. How did you ever sober me so
soong'
"That's an old fashioned brace up" replied
his friend, smiling conplacently, land the
forerunner Of the modern Turkish BATH
New York Sun.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1887-10-26
4 Bookseller's Trick.

In New Yorl. they tell tales of bookseller
who buys books al auction here in the spring,
takes them with him to Paris in trunk in
the summer, ships them back to his store in
the fall IN cases that are opened in the pres
ence Of fiabbergasted book men. He shows
Paris invoice for them. Sometimes it is
the library OF q marquis, sometimes the col.
lection of cousin to n descendant Of n COVER
ness OF queens children. The trick is said
to pay well; doubtless 1t does, judging by
hbrettoS that fetch from SIS TO $50 Tor hay.
ing been in the Tuileries library {" as witDesl
the binding with its large, gilded initial y. ~
but these things are manufactured by whole
sale il the Boulevard -Michel.-Nev
York Times
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1887-10-26
sherir7s Election Proclamation.

STATE OF KANSAS, GO
County of Sedgwick d.
The state of Kansas to all whom these
presents shall come, greeting: Know ye,
that |, W. w. Hays, sheriff of Sedgwick
county, state Of Kansas, do hereby proclaim
and make known to the legal voters Of Sedg-
wick county, state Of Kansas, that on the
first Tuesday after the first Monday of
November, A. d. 1887, (5eing the
eighth day of the month";, there will
be au election held in each of the voting pre-
cincts throughout said county Of Sedgwick
for the purpose of electiDg the following
county officers, to-wit:
For Judge, Eighteenth judicial district.
For Treasurer.
For Clerk.
For Register of Deeds.
For Sheriff
For Coroner.
For Surveyor.
For Commissioner, First district
Polls TO be opened at o'clock in the morn
ing and closing at O'Clock in the evening OF
the said day.
Given under my hand at the sheriff:
Office, in the city OF Wichita, Sedgwick
county, state of Kansas, this 5th day Of
October, a. d. 1887.
dl20w29tf W. W. HAYS,
Sheriff of sedgwick County, Kansas.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1887-10-26
Ennthlscka and Lilies.

One OF the principal articles Of traffic at
Lake Minnetonlza about this season Is that
beautiful species of the white water lily,
which grows in such profgsioa there, and is
said to resemble the famous lotus blossom o1
tie Nile These lilies ere not wendell by
pretty country girls with btushins faces and
twinkling bare ieet, snch as thc story books
tell OF, bat by the bootbiackS Shine yer
shos and water ilies,r these arabs VIII sdoUt,
and il looks strangely inconsistent wh@a
with thsir grin1y little paws they hand ou;
the iulrnaculate blossoms -pioaser Press